Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
If you were too busy being productive instead of reading Lifehacker this month, have a quick rundown of March's most popular posts: Top 10 Software Easter Eggs"Sure we like our chocolate bunny ears, but around these parts the best easter eggs aren't painted pink and stuffed with jelly beans—they're the ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Mashable and Kluster.com are sponsoring NextWeb’s NY Web 2.0 Meetup, going on live right now in New York City. Our own Adam Hirsch is in the crowd, broadcasting live video from one of NYC’s most popular networking events / parties focusing upon all elements of business and technology. ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
If you're in the market for a professional grade site, you've probably found that quality design work doesn't come cheap. But while hiring outside help can be costly, designing your own site can be almost free if you know where to look for good resources, tutorials and tools.Continue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Search for local businesses in your area without resorting to your clunky mobile keyboard with the new, quietly unleashed Google Mobile feature found at google.com/m/lcb. When you navigate to the "lcb" page (local businesses?), Google Mobile identifies what city you're in (or tries to—my test had me in either Columbus, ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
So you’re out on a Saturday night, and half your crew met up at a local bar on their side of town while you and the rest of your buddies went straight to the club. Now what? You can call each other to find out where everybody is ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Jacquard is a software development methodology specialized for Web projects and Web development that looks to align the work and goals of business interest personnel, Web designers, programmers, project managers, database analysts, and more. Learn Jacquard’s core principles, and follow an example of its use in communication between a user ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Google Docs is getting offline access baked in with Google Gears starting with a small number of users today, the Official Google Docs blog reports. We're not seeing it yet (are you?), but when we all do, it'll work <a href="http://lifehackerContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
CareerBuilder has been working hard to insert itself as deep as possible into the social media realm, and its medium of choice appears to be Facebook. The job search site already had a budding Facebook presence, thanks to things like the CareerBuilder Facebook <a href="http://mashableContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
On May 28th and 29th in San Francisco, join some of Google’s engineers and talk about building superb applications with Google Code and other open web technologies. The Google I/O conference will discuss AJAX, JavaScript, tools that leverage Google Maps, social applications, APIs, mobile apps, and more.
You can register ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Readers are submitting their best life hack for a chance to win an autographed copy of our new book, Upgrade Your Life. Here's our latest winner.
Reader David says that staring at the glowing box all day long is hard on his peepers, so he takes matters into his own handsContinue ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
HDR (high dynamic range) images are photos made up of the same image shot at several different exposures, and when you combine them you get a color-rich, almost surreal image with amazing highlights. They make stunning desktops for your computer, and we’ve found 13 resources for you to grab ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Branded video SaaS Reality Digital has just announced the closing of its $6.3 million Series B round of venture funding, led by OpenView Venture Partners. The firm’s Managing Partner and Senior Managing Director Scott Maxwell, as well as Venture Partner Mark Barry, will be joining Reality Digital’s Board of ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Web site IdentiFight searches popular web applications for accounts linked to an email address you specify. The main purpose of IdentiFight is to show you what information is available online to anyone who has your email address, then to help you cut the connection between your address and that info ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
I’m in LA for one more night, and we’re squeezing every last drop out of the LA tech scene. If you’re in the area, join myself and Causecast tonight - 6pm at the MaKai Lounge, 101 Broadway Avenue, Santa Monica, for a Flash MashMeet, West Coast style!
A small, select ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Offline access to Google Docs is coming, as announced today by Phillip Tucker over at the Google Docs blog. Personally, I’d be a lot more excited if I didn’t just upgrade to Firefox 3, since this is a Google Gears based project (and Gears isn’t yet compatible with that ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
STARTUP DETAILS:
Company Name: ConcertAttack
Company Website: http://www.concertattack.com
20 word description: ConcertAttack.com is a dedicated online live music community for sharing your concert reviews, pictures and videosContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Ever drive by a house for sale and wonder what the price is? Find out on the spot using voice transcription service Jott and real estate valuation search engine Zillow. You'll need to register at Jott (it's free), and to set up a Zillow link within ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Although still in private beta, much like FriendFeed, fav.or.it is showing a knack for releasing features that play to some of the currently hot memes around the blogosphere. Today, the social RSS reader is showcasing a feature that they are dubbing a “conversation tracker,” aggregating all of your comments from ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Jason Calacanis has an interesting take on Yahoo’s latest launch, an online women’s magazine dubbed “Shine” that we covered earlier todayContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Web site LegalTorrents is a BitTorrent search engine designed to distribute Creative Commons-licensed content. Each torrent submitted to LegalTorrents is reviewed by moderators for the proper licensing and then posted to the site. Additionally, LegalTorrents hosts a high-speed seed for each torrent, guaranteeing that you should always be able to ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
During Saturday night’s packed MashMeet LA 2.0 event, the videoblog TechZulu conducted interviews with interesting attendeesContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Audible, the digital audiobooks company that was snatched up by Amazon earlier this year for $300 million, has launched a network just for kids. The new site, called <a href="http://kids.audible.com/adkd/site/k/homepageGuestContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
This week, we wanted to let you know about a whole lot of great upcoming conferences in all things web and social:
March 31, 2008 (Tonight!): Mashable and Kluster.com are sponsoring NextWeb’s NY Web 2.0 Meetup,one of New York City’s most popular networking events / parties focusing upon all elements of ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Since the dawn of time, geeks have been playing harmless pranks on their beloved (but unsuspecting) associates, and it's up to all of us to carry the torch forward. On the eve of April Fools' Day, when you've got local network access to your coworkers' and family systems, cubicles just ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Gina will be on G4's Attack of the Show today in a live interview talking about Lifehacker and our new book, airing at 4 p.m. Pacific. Look for the clip here tomorrow!
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Digital Inspiration blog has a timely step-by-step tutorial on creating a "slipstreamed" Vista installation DVD that has all the fixes and tweaks from Service Pack 1 included. The guide utilizes the previously mentioned vLite tool, and requires a Vista installation CD—but you create the new DVD from inside your ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Anywired blog posts a good guide to using Ubuntu (and most any Linux distribution) productively, through both built-in but under-appreciated features and free software. We've covered a few of the suggestions before, including Compiz Fusion tools, a super-charged Gedit, and app launcher <a href="http://lifehackerContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
We've got a guest post up over at the excellent Unclutterer blog this morning about how to clear out the clutter in your email inbox. Check it out for a quick refresher on how to reclaim your email sanity.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
You can do a lot of things with Google Desktop, and use it as an advanced widget and sidebar engine—but what if you really just want a better system-wide search tool? The Google Operating System blog drills down on the latest <a href="http://desktopContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
As expected, hi5 announced the launch of its developer platform today with support for OpenSocial. Additionally, the social network, which is most popular in Latin America, has announced that it has become a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, the non-profit organization announced last week between Google, Yahoo, and ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Splice together YouTube clips without downloading a single one using Omnisio, a free video compilation website with all the standard share/embed/reply features of modern web apps. The editing interface is decidedly simple—move the sliders to the start and ending parts of the clip you want, then choose the next video ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Last week, we covered news that MTV Networks would be launching a handful of specialized niche sites on the Verizon wireless network, expounding on its original plans to grow its audience and retain existing users with a discerned mobile strategyContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
AOL confirms that the mobile gaming space is indeed heating up. The company is putting its acquisition of mobile advertising network, Third Screen Media, to good use by launching a free, ad-supported mobile gaming network. Similar to casual, web-based games on your computer, the new mobile games will ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Whenever Windows XP or Vista run across a file type the system doesn't recognize (regardless of whether you do or not), the user is prompted with either selecting a program to open it or to "Use the Web service to find the correct program"—which has yet to work even once, ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
vtap Feed is the latest product in Veveo’s growing family of search and discovery tools. what vtap Feed will do is offer a custom set of personalized video feeds, based on your preferences. You may recall vtap’s mobile search tool, which offers a simplified and expedited way of ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
iPass has just announced a new service targeted at individuals that provides mobile Web access via both WiFi hotspots and 3G wireless networks. The service, called iPassConnect, claims to be the world’s largest wireless data network, providing Web access via both hotspots at more than 95,000 locations including Starbucks, ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Video site Stickam conducted live interviews throughout the night at the massively successful MashMeet LA event on Saturday. Below, see Pete Cashmore, Veronica Belmont and a variety of startups giving their thoughts on the LA tech scene.
Thanks to Stickam for the interviews and free schwag, and Mixergy ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
I’ve just chuckled as I realized that the recently relaunched oldschool legal torrent site, excitingly named LegalTorrents, is in beta. I don’t see why a simple torrent site such as this one needs the beta badge; I guess that the devs felt it’s not quite finished yet.
In any case, ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Yahoo’s latest project is Shine, an online magazine aimed at women in the 25-54 demographics. The site integrates some of Yahoo’s standard social networking features, but it doesn’t go too deep: it’s just your standard collection of articles in a nice, clean, magazine format.
There’s always room for a project ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites!
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Following up on the official launch of MySpace Mobile two weeks ago, the top social network has just announced the expansion of its text message alert program to five new carriers through a partnership with mBlox.
Starting today, customers of Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA, Alltel Wireless, US Cellular, and ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Thanks to Stickam, we now have a high quality archived copy of the Cashmore vs. Scoble showdown at Saturday’s excellent CommunityNext Conference in LA - it’s embedded below.
By all accounts, Mashable’s CEO and the FastCompany videoblogger extraordinaire <a href="http://scobleizerContinue Reading....
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
In the past year, personal online shopping tool StyleFeeder relaunched its website and also raised an additional $2 million in funding. I expected more integration with larger, existing networks as a way for StyleFeeder to further its marketing capacity, and today StyleFeeder announces open access to its API. ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
I first learned of Matchmine when the company debuted at DEMOfall last September, and I liked its concept right off the bat. Through a quick survey, Matchmine can begin to determine an individual’s taste across multiple genres (music, film) based on the responses given for one.
This recommendation ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Though it is not the most popular feature of the Xbox 360 platform, the Xbox Live service - where shoppers can find television and feature film downloads, among other items - does get some attention from the potpourri of console owners out in the world. Microsoft think the level of ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Fan of Java applications? Here’s one for you. It’s called Woopra.
Demonstrated first on video today at WordCamp Dallas (our own Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins is in attendance, as you’ve seen in numerous Mashable posts published throughout the weekend) by Cali Lewis of GeekBriefContinue Reading....
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
The Password Meter web utility tests the strength of your passwords as you type them, scoring your password strength based on a number of positive and negative password attributes. The test measures your password's number of characters, type of characters used, and the order of your characters. (Sequential letters or ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Airtel Telemedia Services, India’s “largest private broadband and telephone service provider,” has announced its launch of a new Web portal (airtellive.com) in partnership with Google, who will be co-branding the effort. The company’s customers “will receive free access” to the software solutions held within the Google Apps suite, according to ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
The BlackBerry application from Jott is coming out of private beta on Monday, freeing voice-to-text email replies to the legions of CrackBerry addicts.
For those unfamiliar with Jott, they are a company that provides a free service for you to call a phone number, pick a contact from your list, and ...
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